Wednesday, October 4, 1916
Cloudy
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Archive Silence
Map Unavailable
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H.H. Asquith
No correspondence or official record found.
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-10-04Top News
Daily Edition
The British ocean liner RMS Franconia was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean by a German submarine.. The French troopship SS Gallia was torpedoed and sunk with the loss of over 1,300 lives.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"I stayed in all the morning and went through some of Basil’s letters with a view to sorting them. ... I went to see Freyberg in Bryanston Square Hospital. ... He has been hit in five places again by a shell bursting at his feet..."